Thanks to all for the many kind and helpful offerings – aren’t there a lot of puzzles? I shall now try and find time to write out a list of what’s what and establish which I can try without having to buy the papers! I’m hoping that most are available online, even if not interactive.
Thanks also, Bernie, for taking the trouble to offer helpful advice.
Thank you also, Jazzgirl, for ‘bringing me forward’. I have been away for a few days in my old stamping ground in London. Everything there now seems to depend on smart phones to work – booking and paying for taxis, reserving a table, ordering and paying for drinks in a bar before you get there. This is all a bit alien for a simple Somerset lad who can’t even get a signal at home and so doesn’t have a smart phone!
Finally, isn’t it strange to see how many subscribers ignore simple requests made in the Forum. Since my original plea there have been headings such as ‘unsure about this’, ‘books and their authors’, ‘herbs and spices’, ‘definitions’ and ‘cryptic’!